Data Manager, Marine Science Program - Vancouver, Canada - Pacific Salmon Foundation

Pacific Salmon Foundation

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Data Manager, Marine Science Program Position Description
August 17, 2023

Position Identification

Title:
Data Manager, Marine Science Program

Status and Funding:
Full-time; Remote; Grant funded

Start Date:
Immediate

Organizational Summary

The Pacific Salmon Foundation (PSF), founded in 1987, is a federally incorporated non-profit charitable organization dedicated to the conservation and restoration of wild Pacific salmon and their natural habitats in British Columbia and the Yukon.

Operating independently from government, PSF facilitates dialogue and undertakes positive initiatives in support of Pacific salmon amongst all levels of government including First Nations, as well as industry, communities, individual volunteers and all fishing interests.

Position Overview
The Data Manager provides support to a variety of projects undertaken by PSF's Marine Science Program.

Roles and Responsibilities
The Data Manager undertakes a predominantly technical role in the Marine Science Program:

Act as liaison between Strait of Georgia Data Center and Bottlenecks Project Management teams.
Develop and implement workflows to receive and manage data streams from bottlenecks field teams and multiple project partners.
Develop and implement repeatable quality control protocols for data streams listed above.
Incorporate qualitycontrolled data into a unified, queryable tagging and detection database and document and maintain this database.
Develop procedures to classify detections as returning fish, outmigrating fish, residualized fish, or bedload transported dead tags using decision rule frameworks based on systemspecific detection infrastructure, species biology, prior release and detection history, time of year, and streamflow data.
Develop workflows to process tagging data, detection data, and genetic stock identification data to generate detection histories for individual tags for different species, stocks, years, and systems.
Develop workflows to integrate additional variables with a potential bearing on survival (e.g., size, condition, abiotic conditions at tagging, tagging date, etc. with detection histories for survival modelling).
Develop workflows to process PIT tag detection infrastructure performance data to identify periods of impaired antenna operation to qualify detection data and inform detection efficiency estimates.
Develop and manage a publicly accessible "orphan tag database" to facilitate exchange of detection and tagging details for tags applied by one agency but detected by another across Salish Sea watersheds.
Participate in field data collections across data streams to obtain comprehensive understanding of project objectives and methods and potential data issues.
Respond to data requests from project partners (e.g., DFO) and other external groups.
Develop written products including contributions and data summaries for quarterly and annual reporting, project standard operating procedures, and methodological components of project final reports and publications.
Other duties, as assigned.

Reporting and Supervision

Supervised by the Director of Marine Science Program, the Data Manager will be responsible for undertaking all work identified by the Director and meeting or exceeding the standard of care set by the Director.

Qualifications

A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Database Administration or similar.
A minimum of 3+ years' experience with management of natural sciences data sets including fisheries data, strongly preferred.
Knowledge of Pacific Salmon biology and assessment strongly preferred.
Experience with SQL.
Capable in R statistical computing environment.
Excellent attention to detail.

Mentoring and Development

Compensation
The compensation range for this role is between $70,000-$80,000 per year.

Location

Diversity and Inclusion

Application Deadline
September 4, 2023

Salary:
$70,000.00-$80,000.00 per year